Corporate support

The support we receive from businesses is an invaluable part of our fundraising.

There are many ways we can work together with companies, your workplace could make us their charity of the year or hold a fundraising event for us.

We have corporate team places on many of our events such a our World's Strongest Boys Triathlon.

If you would like to discuss how we could work with your business please get in touch.

Foodbuy and Compass

Duchenne UK are Compass and Foodbuy's charity of the year. They have a team in the Duchenne Dash 2017. Read more

London Stone

London Stone are helping to raise desperately needed funds for Duchenne UK to support Felix and other young boys with DMD. Read more

Latest

Dr. Dada Pisconti presents preliminary neutrophil elastase inhibitor data at 2019 MDA conference

We teamed up with Charley’s Fund to fund research into elastase inhibitors as a potential treatment for DMD

Duchenne UK Attends the 12th UK Translational Research Conference for NMDs

Last week, our co-founders and research team attended The MRCs 12th UK Translational Research Conference for Neuromuscular Diseases.

Our Mission To End Duchenne

Duchenne UK has a clear vision; to fund and accelerate treatments and a cure for DMD

Sejal's EURORDIS Winter School blog

Sejal attended the EURORDIS Winter School to further develop her skills as a patient advocate. It's a one week face-to-face training course on Scientific Innovation and Translational Research.

Duchenne affects approximately 1 in every 3,500 boys that are born but only around 1 in every 50 million girls. It may be rare, but it does happen. We have been speaking to Feriel, a 26 year old woman living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. She has written us a short blog about her experiences with Duchenne from diagnosis to now.

Meet The Team

Our co-founders Alex Johnson and Emily Crossley met after their sons were diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. They both set up charities, Alex with Joining Jack, Emily with the Duchenne Children’s Trust.

Gene Therapy Overview

An exciting new gene-based therapy on the horizon

What Are The Stages Of Duchenne?

Understand Duchenne

Find out more about DMD and how we can help you

The Impact Of Brexit On Rare Diseases

Please read and share our paper on the impact of Brexit on rare diseases.

Diet

A healthy diet is vital for patients with DMD, especially foods high in Vitamin D and calcium

How You Can Help

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Impact Report 2018

We are proud to share with you our first ever Impact Report, read about the very real impact we are having and the many things we have been working on over the past six years to end Duchenne. Read more